Eye-catching black and whites

[lesapandre]

[lesapandre]

On 25/03/2024 at 15:38, Remspoor said:

London.

Lovat Lane opposite Billingsgate Fish Market. The market moved down-river in 1982. Not much of that photo survives except the Monument to the Great Fire of 1666. 

[lesapandre]

On 24/03/2024 at 19:56, Remspoor said:

Super-rare Singer Gazelle convertible.

[Remspoor]

[lesapandre]

18 minutes ago, Remspoor said:

Imp, g-red, trilby and roof-rack in an x-reg world...

[EyesWeldedShut]

End of the Westway with traffic from the Harrow Road pushing in so as to use the Marylebone Flyover - early 1980s. Paddington Basin is over to the left and that was a total dump back then. Wharf Road was cut in two by the Westway - here's a picture from the old GWR stables in what is now South Wharf Road - I was told that is was once the biggest urban stables in Europe - no idea if that's true.
Stables got disinfected and turned into part of the adjacent St Mary's Hospital

[edit] - my memory needs a rebore. Nth and Sth Wharf road have the canal running between them - they've always been seperate.

[Remspoor]

8 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Imp, g-red, trilby and roof-rack in an x-reg world...

I just want to know how and why is she there?

[lesapandre]

Waiting for that Marina which is pulling onto the hard shoulder?

[EyesWeldedShut]

 

[lesapandre]

13 minutes ago, EyesWeldedShut said:

End of the Westway with traffic from the Harrow Road pushing in so as to use the Marylebone Flyover - early 1980s. Paddington Basin is over to the left and that was a total dump back then. Wharf Road was cut in two by the Westway - here's a picture from the old GWR stables in what is now South Wharf Road - I was told that is was once the biggest urban stables in Europe - no idea if that's true.
Stables got disinfected and turned into part of the adjacent St Mary's Hospital

Horse ramp for getting the horses off.  The one in Deptford still survives and is Grade II Listed. You, or indeed your horse, can still use it.

[EyesWeldedShut]

2 minutes ago, lesapandre said:

Horse ramp for getting the horses off.  The one in Deptford still survives and is Grade II Listed. You, or indeed your horse, can still use it.

That one is also still there (handy for wheelchairs - maybe a bit steep)?)
The police stables in Great Scotland Yard have their ramp internal to the building - I saw it when it was being renovated around 1994 - all the stables there are on the first floor- (allegedly) in case of flooding.

I worked around Central London 1981 - 1997 and, now, regret the fact that I didn't give a tinker's cuss for any of the history of where I was working - that era seems to have slipped from history - too young to have been properly curated and too old to have hit the internet/digital camera age.  A lot of the buildings have been demolished, often re-demolished in the property treadmill that we seem to have as an economy these days.

[sheffcortinacentre]

1 hour ago, lesapandre said:

Waiting for that Marina which is pulling onto the hard shoulder?

More likely it's already broken down & she's alighted for shame I mean safety.

[MiniMinorMk3]

22 hours ago, lesapandre said:

Imp, g-red, trilby and roof-rack in an x-reg world...

It's a Y-Reg world. XR3 to the right of the transit. Also the D-Series looks like a Y too.

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[adw1977]

5 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

He's keeping an eye on the lion on the roof, but what about the other one sneaking round the other side of the car?

[Richard_FM]

56 minutes ago, adw1977 said:

He's keeping an eye on the lion on the roof, but what about the other one sneaking round the other side of the car?

Anyone else humming Born Free!?

[Metal Guru]

1 hour ago, Richard_FM said:

Anyone else humming Born Free!?

Er no. Theme to Casualty maybe?

[lesapandre]

3 hours ago, Metal Guru said:

Er no. Theme to Casualty maybe?

"Put A Tiger In Your Tank"?

[lesapandre]

6 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

1941-47 Hudson Commodore

[lesapandre]

7 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

Bit of a Limehouse, London - landmark that. 

[Metal Guru]

11 hours ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

At first glance , I thought that was an anagram of swastika. 

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